Trapped in a meeting Thursday, I was blissfully trolling Twitter when the “news” rocked me like a Dwight Howard screen: The NBA’s Sacramento Kings are moving to Virginia Beach.

First reaction: I have a better chance of moving to Monaco and starring opposite Charlize Theron in a remake of “To Catch A Thief.”

Some background: As first reported by The Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia Beach’s city council on Tuesday will hear a proposal for constructing an 18,000-seat arena near the Convention Center.

Comcast-Spectacor, owner of the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers, will make the pitch, Mayor Will Sessoms told the Pilot. Moreover, Sessoms said Comcast would guarantee the city a professional sports tenant.

Let’s presume that tenant would not be playing indoor lacrosse.

The Pilot floated the Kings, saddled with the NBA’s oldest arena, as a possibility. Inside Business — The Hampton Roads Business Journal went much further.

The conference’s men’s basketball tournament is set for Greensboro, N.C., for the next three seasons. Bids on the event for 2016-21 were due two weeks ago, Yakola said.

Would a state-o’-the-art arena in Virginia Beach be attractive to the ACC? Heck, yes.

Has the conference offered any such assurance to the city or Comcast-Spectacor? Heck, no.

So in the spirit of charity, let’s call Inside Business’ reporting premature.

Writer Bill Simmons, who knows the NBA and its power brokers as well as any, also debunked the Kings-to-Virginia Beach notion on his Twitter account.

“1. That Kings/Virginia Beach rumor has been floating around for a solid month,” Simmons wrote. “Being floated from Va. Beach's side. It's just not true.

“2. Maloofs aren't even remotely close to deciding what they want to do + have been leaning heavily on NBA for help. Sac still a real option.”

But none of the denials/dismissals erases the fact that Comcast-Spectacor, in partner with entertainment firm Live Nation, will appear in public session Tuesday with Virginia Beach suits to discuss an arena.

“Comcast-Spectacor, through several of our subsidiaries, and Live Nation, both of which have a substantial presence in Southeastern Virginia for many years, are always looking for new opportunities to expand our business in the area,” Comcast spokesman Ike Richman wrote in an email to the Pilot. “We will refrain from making any comments until we are in Virginia Beach on Tuesday.”

Hey, good luck and Godspeed to Comcast and Virginia Beach. Watching a big-league sports franchise attempt to succeed in this fractured market would be, to say the least, intriguing.

As my comrade and terminal wise guy Dave Fairbank tweeted: “We're a collection of fiefdoms with more borders, agendas, backstabbing and intrigue than Game of Thrones.”

And after more than 28 years of covering sports here, we’ve both become incurable cynics. Owners/hucksters — yes, that means you, George Shinn — long have tormented the region with the prospects of an NHL, NBA or Major League Baseball franchise, all in an attempt to strike a better deal elsewhere.

Attempting to extract a new arena from Sacramento, Kings owners Joe and Gavin Maloof, aka the Maloof Brothers, have dangled their team to Anaheim, Calif., and Seattle, which lost the SuperSonics to Oklahoma City. All while professing undying loyalty to Sacramento.

Virginia Beach on Line 2? Sure, they’ll take the call. And make darn sure all other suitors hear about it.

The NBA and ACC tournament at the oceanfront? Call me when David Stern and John Swofford are dining at Luna Sea.

Until then, it’s football season y’all.

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